This report is a summary of results from the project “High-tech spin-offs in the Nordic countries”. It is intended to be a non-technical presentation of the approach, the main results and policy conclusions of the project. It is accompanied by two larger volumes giving the full details and...

In this report we present the results from the project “High-tech spin-offs in the Nordic countries”. The present report describes how it is possible to identify and classify changes in establishments and enterprises utilising administrative register data, and compares results across Sweden,...

The term corporate governance relates to how corporations, firms, organizations etc. are owned, managed and controlled. This is an issue which has been the subject of much debate in recent years.1 The general reason for this, of course, is that how firms are managed matters a good deal for their...

This paper asks whether we can find regularities, or typologies, of innovation within the extremely complex mix of small firms which is found in all market economies. The population of firms in advanced economies usually consists of a relatively small number of large enterprises - which are...

The EU commission initiated a large-scale project for the collection of innovation data on a European basis. The aim was to create a co-ordinated ";European Innovation Survey";. The project began in 1992 with the development and testing of questionnaires, and was followed in 1993-94 by the...

This study is an empirical investigation of the relationship between innovation and economic performance at the level of individual business units, or more precisely the enterprise level. It uses the data from the Norwegian innovation survey 1992 merged with accounting data for the period...

Innovasjonsundersøkelsen ble gjennomført første gang i Norge for året 1992. Undersøkelsen for 1997 følger samme mal, men er såpass mye endret at direkte sammenligning er vanskelig. Bakgrunnen for innovasjonsundersøkelsene er et øket fokus på innovasjon, nyskapning og kompetanse som...

An important policy issue with respect to small firms is whether such firms require support in accessing technologies and technological knowledge outside the firm. This paper is a statistical study of technology acquisition by Norwegian firms. It looks at two basic issues: are there important...